Computing Linear Systems on Metric Graphs

Series
Algebra Seminar
Time
Monday, January 25, 2016 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Bo Lin – UC Berkeley
Organizer
Josephine Yu
A Linear system on metric graphs is a set of effective divisors. It has the structure of a cell complex. We introduce the anchor divisors in it - they serve as the landmarks for us to compute the f-vector of the complex and find all cells in the complex. A linear system can also be identified as a tropical convex hull of rational functions. We can also compute the extremal generators of the tropical convex hull using the landmarks. We apply these methods to some examples - $K_{4}$ and $K_{3,3}$..